Obama agenda becomes clearer

Published: Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:53 p.m.

To The Editor: To become president, Obama repeatedly promised change but remained an enigma. Americans did not know what his election might mean.

What ... social democracy … (Merriam-Webster’s) … “a political movement advocating a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means,” (other references) … “belief in the primacy of political action as opposed to the primacy of economic determinism,” “based on socialism and the tenets of Marx and Engels.”

Actions to combat financial crisis, politicized as being the only acceptable way forward and urgently required, have stealthily thrust social democracy upon us, counter to established American law. Vilification of the rich as oppressors of the struggling poor, the use of government power to seize control of private property, redistribute wealth and promote secularism, are all pure Marxism.

Obama and his followers, wanting to correct what they see as capitalistic inefficiencies and social injustices, are eager to regulate and control all manner of public and private enterprise.

They seem to believe that they can coerce people to think right, speak right and act right and thereby eliminate the evils they perceive. Is this the change that was promised? The change Americans wanted? Why change based on failed methods of the past?

<p>To The Editor: To become president, Obama repeatedly promised change but remained an enigma. Americans did not know what his election might mean.</p><p>What ... social democracy (Merriam-Webster’s) a political movement advocating a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means, (other references) belief in the primacy of political action as opposed to the primacy of economic determinism, based on socialism and the tenets of Marx and Engels.</p><p>Actions to combat financial crisis, politicized as being the only acceptable way forward and urgently required, have stealthily thrust social democracy upon us, counter to established American law. Vilification of the rich as oppressors of the struggling poor, the use of government power to seize control of private property, redistribute wealth and promote secularism, are all pure Marxism.</p><p>Obama and his followers, wanting to correct what they see as capitalistic inefficiencies and social injustices, are eager to regulate and control all manner of public and private enterprise.</p><p>They seem to believe that they can coerce people to think right, speak right and act right and thereby eliminate the evils they perceive. Is this the change that was promised? The change Americans wanted? Why change based on failed methods of the past?</p><p>Al Mercer</p><p>Brevard</p>